Beaded fabric



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Patented Feb. 3

A TTOIWEYS To all whom it may concern:

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GHAIFILES ARTHUR HANINGTON, OF BROOKLYN, YORK.

BEADED FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

Application filed March 19, 1919. 1 Serial No. 283,584.

Be it known that 1, CHARLES Ax HANING- a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the cit vof New York, borough of Brooklyn, in t ecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedBeaded Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in beaded fabrics, an object ofthe invention being to provide an ornamental fabric 'in which thedesign'is'formed by clusters of heads, the beads being secured togetherand to'the fabric by adhesive material.

A further object is to provide a beaded fabric'which is capable ofbending or movement in all directions without in uring the .beadeddesign thereof.

-With these objects in view the invention consists of a flexible sheetor fabric having thereon a plurality of clusters of beads forming adesign with adhesive material securing the beadsof each cluster togetherand the clusters to the fabric, and all the clus ters spaced apartwhereby the fabric is free to bend or otherwise move between theclusters without injuring the design.

In the accompanying drawin Figure 1 is a plan view of a ragment ofbeaded fabric illustrating one "form of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an exag erated plan view show ing a fragment wit theclusters-of beads secured thereto and spaced apart; and

Fi 3 is a view in section through the fabrlc and clusters of beads:

' p In the manufacture of the improved fabr10, beads of very small sizeare utilized which are employed in clusters, but, of course, theinvention is not limited to the particular size of bead. I

' Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the clusters of bead, thebeads being secured together and to the fabric foundation 4 by means ofadhesive material 3, the reference numeral 2 ,being utilized to indicatethe separate beads of the clusters. It will be noted that all of theclusters are spaced from each other a distance sufiicient to permit abendin or flexing of the foundation backing in al directions withoutinjuring the clusters.

The design may be formed by the omission of certain clusters, asindicated in Fig.

' 1, where the design 5 represents a leaf and is made by omittin linesof clusters, as indicatedat 6, but it 1s, of course, to be under:

stood that the design may be otherwiseformed.

The clusters may be variously colored and the color effect may beobtained either by having beads of the desired color or by employingperfectly transparent beads and terations as fairly fall within thespirit and scope of the appended claims.

The clusters 1, it should be understood, are each composed of aplurality of units 2, the several units being held together by theadhesive and also held by the adhesive to the foundation fabric and theunitary construction increases the number of particles caused to adhereto the foundation and thus improves the permanence and durability of thearticle.

I claim:

1. The combination with a flexible foundation sheet, ofa plurality ofclusters of beads on the foundation sheet, and adhesive materialsecuring the .beads of each cluster together and the clusters to thesheet, and.

all of the clustersspaced apart.

2. A beaded fabric, comprising a flexible foundation fabric, a pluralityof clusters of beads thereon forming a design, and adhesive materialsecuring the beads of each cluster to ether and the clusters to thefabric, and all 0 the clusters spaced apart, whereby the fabric is freeto bend or otherwise move between the clusters without injuring thedesign.

p 3. An improved article of manufacture comprising a. flexible,foundation sheet, a plurality of clusters composed of units thereon,arranged to form a design, and an adhesive material securing the unitsof each cluster together and the respective clusters to the sheet, theclusters being spaced apart whereby the fabric is free to bend orotherwise move between the clusters without injuring the design.

.' CHARLES ARTHUR HANINGTON/

